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- Attachment to the Body… The next step is to try to calm what the Buddha calls “bodily fabrication,” in other words, the in-and-out breath. He uses a technical term here. He could have said simply, “calm the in-and-out breathing,” but he wants you to think in terms of fabrication, what the mind is doing to shape the breath, because that’s going to be …
- Cooking the Present Moment… That’s why the breath is called a bodily fabrication. Then there’s verbal fabrication—your inner chatter right now: asking questions, making statements, commenting on this, commenting on that. If you leave that mental chatter to its old ways, it just wanders all over the place. But here we’re bringing it to bear on the breath. So you talk to yourself about …
- Delight in Striving… Those, the Buddha said, require that you exert a fabrication. In this case, it would be the three kinds of fabrication: bodily, verbal, and mental. Bodily being the way you breathe in and out. Verbal being the way you talk to yourself—what the Buddha defines as direct thought and evaluation—you pick a topic, you focus on the topic, and then you ask …
- Feeding Frenzy: Dependent Co-arising… Dig down a few more steps into dependent co-arising, and you come to fabrication. Fabrication comes in three kinds: bodily, verbal, and mental. Bodily fabrication is the breath; verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation; and mental fabrication is feeling and perception. When you’re focused on the breath, thinking about and evaluating the breath, you’ve got all these things right there …
- Full Attention… We forget the Buddha’s analysis of feelings, which would place feelings and emotions, in our sense of those terms, under the aggregate of fabrications, rather than under the aggregate of vedana, which is a matter of the feeling tone: pleasant, painful, or neither pleasant nor painful. We forget how fabricated our feelings are, how conditioned they are, and the fact that just because …
- On Not Being a Victim… After all, all the elements of the path are fabricated. Your experience is fabricated through your intentions to begin with. And the path, everything from right view on down to right concentration: These are all fabrications. Right view means learning to look at things in a certain way, learning to look for certain things. So learn to look for some concentration, look for some …
- Calming the Breath… The next step is calming bodily fabrication as you breathe in, calming bodily fabrication as you breathe out. This is an important step. The term “bodily fabrication” here means specifically the in-and-out breath, and it seems to mean even more specifically the intentional element that you bring to each breath—because, as we all know, the breath is one of the few …
- Right Next to Ignorance… The primary explanation of the causal chain, of course, is in dependent co-arising, where he talks about how ignorance conditions fabrication. So what have we got? Right next to ignorance, you’ve got the breath—that’s bodily fabrication. You’ve got directed thought and evaluation—that’s verbal fabrication. And then you’ve got feelings and perceptions—mental fabrication. This is one …
- Cooking Skills… the three kinds of fabrication. There’s bodily fabrication: the in-and-out breath. Verbal fabrication: directed thought and evaluation—in other words, the way you talk to yourself. You choose a topic and then you comment on it. And then mental fabrication: perceptions—the labels you apply to things, the images you apply—and then feelings, feelings of pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor …
- Samvega vs. Dispassion… You don’t feel a need anymore to feed off these things, and that allows you to stop creating all the fabrications you’ve been creating around the things of the world in an effort to dress them up as food. What follows is dispassion, and that’s not a negative thing. You’re dispassionate toward all that fabrication you’ve been doing, and …
- Develop Your Inner Observer… This luminosity is a quality to be developed, which means it’s part of the path, which further means it’s conditioned and fabricated. But it’s a really useful thing to fabricate. The more sensitive you get to how the mind fabricates, even on the bare level of bare awareness, the more likely you are to get the mind inclined to want to …
- The Questions of Suffering… Fabrications fabricate thoughts, and consciousness cognizes. These are activities, and we cling to them, which means we try to get our sustenance out of them. We try to feed off of these things. That’s why we suffer. How do you feed off feelings? You want pleasant feelings. Whatever sensation comes in, you grab onto it and try to squeeze whatever pleasure you can …
- True & Beneficial… So, given that your projections and fabrications in the present moment are an important part of your experience, how do you fabricate well? The Buddha’s instructions are all about that: that it is possible to make a fabricated path, a constructed path that goes to something that is unfabricated and unconstructed. The raft doesn’t cause the other side of the river to …
- An Inner Revolution… But in the process, you get ever more subtle insights into what it means to fabricate your present experience. A question that ultimately comes up is: “Is there an alternative where you don’t have to fabricate it at all?” That’s the question you pursue. And when you find the answer, that’s when things open up to something else entirely. There’s …
- Kill Your Anger… This is where you go into the area of verbal fabrication and mental fabrication. How are you talking to yourself about the situation? Is what you’re saying really true? Is it really beneficial to talk about it that way? You can think of something irritating that someone has done again and again and again and again. Just thinking about that—that it’s …
- What You’re Choosing to Do Right Now… feelings, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness. The fact that you are fabricating these things… The way the Buddha explains it is that there’s a potential for all of these things coming in from the past, and you decide that you want a feeling, or you want a perception, so you fabricate those potentials into something you actually experience right now. What this means is that …
- Consistently on the Path… bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself; and mental fabrication, the feelings you focus on and the perceptions you hold in mind, the images you give to yourself of the world and of yourself. As long as we do these things in ignorance, they’re going to cause suffering. If we bring some knowledge to them, they …
- More than a Sliver of Mindfulness… That allows you to look into that process of fabrication and you’ll be right on target. The problem is right there. As the Buddha said, we suffer because we fabricate things in ignorance, but we can bring knowledge to the process of fabrication. Then it becomes part of the path. And it’s sustained by developing a sense of well-being that you …
- Questions of Skill… seeing things clearly; where they come from; where they go; how you fabricate them. Well, here you’re fabricating a big fabrication—the fabrication of the mind in concentration. As Ajaan Fuang used to say, “Don’t go looking at things outside. The big problem is inside.” When the mind says that things are inconstant, stressful, not-self, the problem is not the things …
- The Broken Gong… Your inner commentary involves two levels of fabrication: what the Buddha called verbal fabrication, which is your conversation inside about the pain, and mental fabrication, the perceptions, the images you hold in mind and around the pain. One important perception to question concerns the relationship between your sensation of the body and the sensation of the pain. Are they right in the same spot …
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